A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.