One legged chickens, I know, are the least apt to scratch a garden.

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

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

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.

A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.

The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.

Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.