Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

There's one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.