It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.