As in a game ov cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what is dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so mutch in winning, as in playing a poor hand well.
What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.
Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.
Man isn't a fool for his ignorance, but rather for believing things that are wrong.
The very thing that men think they have got the most of, they have got the least of; and that is judgment.
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.
You should always live within your income, even if you have to borrow to do so.
Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
When a man makes up his mind to become a rascal, he should examine himself closely and see if he isn't better constructed for a fool.
A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.
Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.
A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.
Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.
Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.
Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.
Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.
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