until there is a more favorable opportunity–it will never come.  Happiness, like a fickle maiden, must be courted constantly.

–you will make a fool of yourself.

–it unfits you for everything else, and shrivels every tender flower in the human heart–it is the canker worm that eats up every blossom in the garden of manhood.

–it requires less food, is more easily digested, is more thoroughly assimilated, and is the best cure in the world for dyspepsia and a weak stomach.

spends about fifty cents a day for tobacco, beer and whisky—fifty cents a day for seven years amounts to a sum large enough to buy a neat little home and furnish it.

simply because they are rich–it is mean in you.

who keeps his eyes almost closed, giving them a squinting appearance–he will betray you.

as a guide to your actions–conscience has nothing to do with right nor wrong–it simply says you must execute the verdict of the faculties, sitting as jurors.  An Indian sincerely believed it his duty to kill the white man who invaded his domain, but that did not make it right.  For a thousand years the church believed it was right to burn, and kill heretics, and others who did not believe its creed–but that did not make it right.

and the cheapest goods in the market, when your goods are fourth-class, and you are selling them at first-class prices.

–better not cash checks for any person.