Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.

Here's the rule for bargains - 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept.

Rich folks may ride on camels, but it an't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye. That is my comfort, and I hope I knows it.

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Keed, I'll give you a little bit of advice. Don't believe anything they write about you, good or bad. Two, get the dough while the getting is good, but don't b…

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. …