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

Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.