A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite
Young widows still bide their time.
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.
I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.