I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.

It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

There are very few good judges of humor, and they don't agree.