Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.
Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.
Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.
I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.