The best specimens ov calm resignashun tew their fate that I hav met with thus far, hav been amung thoze who had an inkum ov 40 thousand dollars a year, less government tax.
Diogenes and Seneca were two az grate philosophers az the world haz ever produced; one lived in a tub, and the other in a palace.
Most ov the happiness in this world konsists in possessing what others kant git.
Take all the phools and the good luk out of this world, and it would bother menny ov us tew git a living.
Thare iz a grate menny ghosts travelling around loose, but no one ever saw one yet.
Honesty iz like money, yu hav got tew work hard tew git it, and then work harder to keep it.
I alwus git my boots made bi the shumaker that other shumakers praze.
Philosophy iz born in the head, and dies in the heart.
I hav noticed one thing, that just about in proporshun that the pashuns are weak, men are seemingly virtewous.
Here iz just what’s the matter—if yu shut yureself up folks will run after yu, and if yu run after folks they will shut themselfs up.