“Jewels in a pig’s nose and riches in a snob’s hand.”
“He gives more who gives a penny to the poor than he who adds a fortune to the wealth of the rich.”
“Those who rose from nothing lord it most.”
“Get at the cause rather than attack the effect.”
“A headlong hero is not so good as a timid man who knows just what he is after.”
“If you would serve a fair master, work for yourself.”
“Once books, art, music, poetry and gardening used to interest the men of China and the world; now it is the new age, when only food and power engage; is materialism progress?”
“The best place to await your enemy is at the graveyard boundary, for he must pass there at last.”
“Another mouth at the table shrinks the bowl on the fire.”
“You can only give a man a stone for bread once.”