A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself and then deliberately gets into.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man without lowering him in his estimation and yours too.
Be like a postage stamp-stick to one thing until you get there.
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
It is the little things that fret and worry us you can dodge an elephant but not a fly.