Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

Shame is the dying embers of virtue.

When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.