Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Self-made men are most always apt to be a little too proud of the job.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

As the flint contains the spark, unknown to itself, which the steel alone can awaken to life, so adversity often reveals to us hidden gems, which prosperity or negligence would forever have hidden.

The morning paper is just as necessary for an American as dew is to the grass.