Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.

I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.

The books are balanced in heaven, not here.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.