The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

In life it is training rather than birth which counts.

Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.

Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.

No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.

Take care! Kingdoms are destroyed by bandits, houses by rats, and widows by suitors.

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

If making money is a slow process, losing it is quickly done.

To think twice in every matter and follow the lead of others is no way to make money.

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

Blind-believers and staunch atheists have the same god - namely, a self-deluded, one's own shadow's bot.

The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking.

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself and then deliberately gets into.

Death by drink driving is the only socially acceptable form of homicide.

London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.

Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.

Real luxury is understanding quality, and having the time to enjoy it.

It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry jam.

You have eaten a meal dangerously seasoned. [You have laid up a grief in store for yourself.]

I'm attracted to the underrated characters.