All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.
To avoid being drawn into error, keep a firm grip on the truth.
The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.
There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.