True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.

It is not much trouble to doctor sick folks, but to doctor healthy ones is troublesome.

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.