That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

Money is of no value; it cannot spend itself. All depends on the skill of the spender.