From the April 8, 1906 NYT:

1. You can't buy success at the bargain counter.*
   
2. The hand-shaker may be a leg-puller in disguise.
   
3. Love is a dream, but marriage is an alarm clock.
   
4. Love in a cottage now demands a town house as well.
   
5. Honesty is a virtue, consequently it is its own reward.
   
6. It seems easier to write life insurance than to right it.
   
7. A good cook is more to be desired than great riches.
   
8. No man is so fond of pets as to welcome the wolf at the door.
   
9. Many a man would trade a family tree for a load of firewood.*
   
10. The charity of some people begins with the Charity Ball, and ends there.
    
11. Many a thousand-dollar portrait has been painted of a thirty-cent man.
    
12. It's hard for a man to get into heaven who puts his religion in his wife's name.
    
13. Even the fellow who is wedded to his art may marry in haste and repent at leisure.
    
14. A fool and his money are lucky ever to have gotten together in the first place.*
    
15. The proof of the pudding may be in the eating, but the proof of the brandy sauce is on the breath.
    
16. Beware of the fellow who does the most talking about despising wealth. He generally wants to borrow a quarter.*