You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.