Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.

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

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.