Punctuality is the soul of business.

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

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

Just what part of meow don't you understand?

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

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.