The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

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

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.