“There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.”

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

Practice yourself what you preach.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

I regard that man as lost, who has lost his sense of shame.

Always bring money along with your complaints.

Courage is its own reward.

Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.

Let deeds match words.

Man proposes, God disposes.

That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.

Feast today makes fast tomorrow.

The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb.

Man is no man, but a wolf.

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

Woman is certainly the daughter of Delay personified!

. It has to look real. That in itself becomes challenging because you have to learn it straight away.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another’s experience.

There are games in which it is better to lose than win.

Why should he who is scared be careful?

For, in the vernacular, we Americans are suckers for good news.

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

I am myself my own commander.