“Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.”
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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
