Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth

Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.