Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.