It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.

The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

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

A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.