Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject
A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.
Take the humbug out of this world, and you haven't much left to do business with.
About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.