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.

I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.

Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

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

Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.