He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

The only people who should use the possessive 'we' are kings, newspaper editors, and persons with tapeworms.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.