When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.