Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Life ain't all beer and skittles.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

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

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.