The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.
The jests of the rich are ever successful.
Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.
To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.