It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.

Jealousy is one of love's parasites.

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.

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.