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

The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

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

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

Caution, though very often wasted is a good risk to take.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject