Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.
Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.
Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.