Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu git thewuss tha wurk.