Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.
Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.
The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.
It's not ignorance does so much damage; it's knowin' so derned much that ain't so.
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.