Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.

[Science is] the literature of truth.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.