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.

Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven

Jealousy is one of love's parasites.