The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.
A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.