Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.

Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

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.

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.

People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath.

Min be the travaille, and thin be the glorie.

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home.

Not to ask is not be denied.

Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.

We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.