Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.