I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.

Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.