Death and taxes are inevitable.

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

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.

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.

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

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.