Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.