Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.