Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

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

Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

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.

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

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