Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

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

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.