One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.

I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.