Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.