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.

Friendship is like earthenware, once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror, once broken that ends it.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.

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

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.