Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

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

Nature's bank-dividends.

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

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

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

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.