My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.
Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.
Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.
Silence never makes any blunders.
Tears are a good alterative, but a poor diet.