Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.

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.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.