A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
One of the commonest mistakes is thinking your worries are over when your children get married.
Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young.
A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.