Pedantry is paraded knowledge.
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.
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.