A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.
People travel to learn; most of them before they start should learn to travel.
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.
We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.