Good breeding, az i understand it, iz giving every man his due, without robbing yourself.
Natur iz jist az honest az a cow.
Talk little, but listen out loud, yung man, iz the way tew make the company suspekt you—i mean suspekt yu ov knowing a grate deal more than yu aktually do.
If yu should reduce the wants ov the people ov Nu York citty tew aktual necessitys and plain comforts, yu would hav tew dubble the perlice force tew keep them from committing suicide.
People when they find fault with theirselfs, are generally more anxious tew be consoled than forgiven, and, therefore, when a man begins tew confess hiz sins tew me and sez, “thare ain’t no hope for him,” i tell him he ought tew know awl about it, and i guess iz more than half right.
What the world wants iz good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.
Pride iz bogus. Adam at one time had a right tew be proud but he let sin beat him out of hiz birthright.
A crowing hen and a cackling ruseter are very misfortunate poultry in a family.
Az a ginral thing the man who marrys a woman ov more uppercrust than himself will find the woman more anxious tew preserve the distance between them than tew bring him up tew her grade or go down tew hiz level.
Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with menny persons who otherwise would be lost amung the rubbish.