About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Silence is a still noise.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.