Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

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.

Faith is the soul riding at anchor.

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

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.

Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor.

The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.