The dog that will follow everbody ain't worth a curse.
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.
I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.
Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject