Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
When a man comes to me for advice I find out the kind of advice he wants and I give it to him.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squ...
There are people who are always anticipating trouble and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen.
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.
The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.
If it wasn't for faith there would be no living in this world we couldn't even eat hash with any safety.
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
My advice to those who are about to begin in earnest the journey of life is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
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