One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.
I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.