Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

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

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

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

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

Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.

...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.