To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is simply to let the world know that you are wiser today than you were then.

When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.

"Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.