Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.