Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Mary's mouth costs her nothing, for she never opens it but at others expense

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

When you live in Beijing for a while, you gain a finely tuned understanding of air.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.