Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

I do not know of a better cure for sorrow than to pity somebody else.

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.

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