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

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

The hardest thing any man can do is to fall down on the ice when it's slippery, and get up and praise the Lord.

Dr. Holmes says, both wittily and truly, that crying widows are easiest consoled.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

Pedantry is paraded knowledge.