There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.
Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.
Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.