Good phisick iz like a fiddle, it furnishes the tune, while natur cuts the pigeon wing and cures the patient.
Caution, tho very often wasted, iz a good risk to take.
Pity iz about the meanest wash that one man kan offer another, i had rather hav a 10 dollar greenback that had been torn in two twice and pasted together, than tew have all the pity thare iz on the upper side ov the earth—pity iz nothing more than a quiet satisfackshun that i am a great deal better oph than yu am, and that I intend to keep so.
Fortune iz like a coquette, if you dont run after her she will run after you.
Did you ever hear a very ritch man sing?
If i was a going to paint a pikter of Faith, Affection and Honesty, i would paint mi dog looking up in mi face and waggin his tail.
The devil iz a mean kuss; he never keeps hiz own promises, but alwus makes us keep ours.
Truth iz az artless az a child, and as purswasive.
There iz nothing in this life that men pay so hi a price for az they do for repentance.
Laws are made, customs grow—laws hav tew be executed, customs execute themselves—laws begin where customs end.