The borrower runs in his own debt.
A little integrity is better than any career.
The mind will quote whether the tongue does or not.
Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the sauntering people gladly lend an ear.
The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.