Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.