It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.