The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.

There's one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles.

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

Jealousy is one of love's parasites.