The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
Silence is a still noise.
The quickest way to take the starch out of someone who is always blaming himself is to agree with him.
We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.
Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.
Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.