It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.
It’s not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust.
Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.
The happiest time in a man’s life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.
When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry – for the clothes.
Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you’re in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
Woman’s influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.