The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.