Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.

I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

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.