He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.