Anything you lose automatically doubles in value. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

A bargain is something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist. – Franklin P. Jones

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers