The first hundred years are the hardest.
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.