I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

Theres not a lot of good humor in medicine, but theres a lot of medicine in good humor.

The less we know the more we suspect

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.