People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
When a man is wrong and won't admit is, he always gets angry.
One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.