It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

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

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.