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

Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.

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

As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.

Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.