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 am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.

And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.