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.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

Debt is like any other trap, easy enough to get into, but hard enough to get out of.

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

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.