A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!
Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.
What, in the devil's name, is the use of respectability, with never so many gigs and silver spoons, if thou inwardly art the pitifulness of all men?