The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.
We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.