Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired.

Tough times teach trust.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.