As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.

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

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.