There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

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

When you do laugh, open your mouth wide enough for the noise to get out without squealing, throw your head back as though you were going to be shaved, hold on to your false hair with both hands and then laugh till your soul gets thoroughly rested.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.