Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.

Menny think tha luv their husbands almost tew deth, when in fack, tha are only jealous ov them.