Nature's bank-dividends.

Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.

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

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

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.