Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

There are three great friends: an old wife, and old dog, and ready money.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.