The luxurys ov life, which are so often reprimandid, are after all the prinsipal promoters ov industry.
Munny ain't akumulated so mutch tew satisfy wants, as tew kreate them.
It iz a very wize man who is able tew hide his ignorance.
Wisdum iz another name for genius, and both are the gift of God.
A man kant learn tew be wize, enny more than he kan learn tew be hansum.
One man, of good 40 hoss power common sens, iz worth more in the world than a whole drove of geniuses.
Fools and drunken men alwus make this mistake, the one thinks they are sensible, and the other alwus think they are sober.
Deference iz the best kard i know ov tew play, it iz not only eazier, but a grate deal more profitable to make 10 men think they are abuv you, than tew make one think you are abuv him.
Don't forgit, yung man, that excesses in youth are a mortgage in favor ov disseaze by and by, which will not fail to forclose and enter on the premises.
I hav made a kluss kalkulashun on it, and i find that there aint more than 3 men, now on earth, nor never haint been, who kan kultivate an excentricity with suckcess.
I hate a crowd, bekauze crowds are made up ov people who aint ov much ackount, only tew help make up a crowd.
Don't borry nor lend, but if you must do one, _lend_.
Giv me an inkum ov 10 thousand, 500 a year, and i will agree tew be a philosopher the rest ov mi days.
He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.
Envy and jealousy are two pashunz, which no man haz ever yet been free from, and yet no man ever admits he iz possessed of them.
Take all the good luk out ov this world, and millionaires and heroes would be dredful skarse.
Genius, like the yung eagle, don't hav tew make enny trial trips, but when it iz full fledged, pushes boldly out, even towards the sun.
Fortune iz represented az blind, and thoze who receive most ov her favours _go it blind_.
If thare want no evil in this world, thare wouldn't be much wisdum, i suppoze.
It iz the little things ov life that makes the burden heavy--to carry a hundred weight at once iz no grate load, but tew hav it put on our backs, a pound at a time, iz.
Men are often praized for their sagassity, but all the fore-sight in the world kant tell a dubble yelked egg untill it iz broken.