It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.

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

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

The greatest thief this world has ever produced is procrastination, and he is still at large.

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.

Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.