“Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”

“If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still.”

“The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.”

“No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.”

“Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.”

“Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”

“Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.”