When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.
Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant.