"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a large fortune must be in want of a wife."

"No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with."

"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

"What dreadful weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance."

"The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky"

"If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like."

"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy]."

"Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family."

"The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature."

"Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay."