A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

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.

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.