Advice is like castor oil — easy enough to give but dreadful hard to take.

Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu git thewuss tha wurk.

Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.

When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is