Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.
Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
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.