I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.

Jealousy is one of love's parasites.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.