Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.
Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.
Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is
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.