Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.
If animals had reason, they would act just as ridiculous as we menfolks do.
Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.
Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.