“I would as soon leave to my son a curse as the almighty Dollar”

“A shoe too large trips one up”

“Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice”

“Even a single hair casts a shadow”

“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete”

“No one possesses unalloyed pleasure; there is some anxiety mingled with the joy”