If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.

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