Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.
I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.