Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

The great art of writing is knowing when to stop.

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

The less we know the more we suspect