Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.

And now the lads and lasses, following the example of the birds, bill and coo together.