Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.