Every young man should have a hobby: learning how to handle money is the best one.

I can give you my word, but I know what it's worth and you don't.

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.

You can't have your cake and let your neighbor eat it too.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

"And Bezel saideth unto Sham: `Sham,' he saideth, `Thou shalt goest unto the town of Begorrah, and there thou shalt fetcheth unto thine bosom 35 talents, and also shalt thou fetcheth a like number of cubits, provideth that they are nice and fresh.'"

Things are more like they are today than they ever were before.

"... all the modern inconveniences ..."

One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Life is too short to be taken seriously.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

It has long been noticed that juries are pitiless for robbery and full of indulgence for infanticide. A question of interest, my dear Sir! The jury is afraid of being robbed and has passed the age when it could be a victim of infanticide.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets truth.

The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away".

Having no talent is no longer enough.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.