If you ever find happiness by hunting for it you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles safe on her nose all the time.
It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.
Faith is the soul riding at anchor.
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.
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do hold well.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.
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.
Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.
Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
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...
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.