Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.
Money is a necessity; so is dirt.
One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.
Ceremony is all backbone.
If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.