Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

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.

As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.

Biography is the best form of history.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.