Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Self-possession is the backbone of authority.
I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.