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

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

People travel to learn; most of them before they start should learn to travel.

The books are balanced in heaven, not here.