Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

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.

Keep a cow, and then the milk won't have to be watered but once.

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

Peace is the soft and holy shadow that virtue casts.

Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.