There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.

The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.