There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

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

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

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.

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.