Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain’t so wicked as their neighbors.
Life is short, but it’s long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain’t gout.
Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.
Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire’s parent.
Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.
The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.
Habits are like the wrinkles on a man’s brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.
Perseverance is king.
There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
The man who ain’t got an enemy is really poor.
If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.
He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.
I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine.
Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don’t attempt to live in them.
A learned fool is one who has read everything and simply remembered it.
It ain’t no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.
Faith is the soul riding at anchor.