Trusting to luck is only another name for trusting to lazyness.
Fortune never takes enny boddy by the hand, but she often allows them to take her by the hand.
Avarice and lazyness makes the most digusting kind ov a mixtur.
Two thirds ov what is called love iz nothing but jealousy.
Sekrets are like the meazles—they take eazy and spred eazy.
The eazyest thing for our friends to diskover in us, and the hardest thing for us to diskover in ourselfs, iz that we are growing old.
We sumtimes hit a thing right the fust blow, but most always a suckcess iz the result ov menny failures.
The heart rules the hed, bekauze the pashuns rule the judgement.
Advice iz like kissing—it don’t kost nothing, and iz a pleazant thing to do.
One ov the most diffikult, and at the same time one ov the most necessary, things for us old phellows to know, iz that we aint ov so mutch ackount now az we waz.