Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

Money is a necessity; so is dirt.

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.