Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.