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

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

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.

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.

I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.

Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.