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

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

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

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.