Silence never makes any blunders.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

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

Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.