Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.

And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together.

Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.

Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.