Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.

If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.

Silence is said to be golden, but the best fools the world has ever produced had nothing to say on the subject

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.

I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.