There's one good thing about tight shoes; they make you forget your other troubles.
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
Fun is a sugar-coated physic.