Young widows still bide their time.

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

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

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

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.