It is a very delicate job to forgive a man without lowering him in his estimation and yours too.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles safe on her nose all the time.
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
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.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
The trouble ain't that people are ignorant: it's that they know so much that ain't so.
Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.
My advice to those who are about to begin in earnest the journey of life is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
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.
A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.
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