A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.