Persecuted for the Devil’s sake, iz what sinners git for their allegiance.
Sum people won’t beleave enny thing they kant prove; the things i can’t prove, are the very things i beleave the most.
Pride never shows itself more disgustingly than in the pomp ov a phuneral.
Happiness iz not idleness, but its spirit iz az free from labor, as the life ov a yearling heifer.
Good examples amung the rulers, are the best laws they kan enakt.
The devil iz probably the best judge ov human natur that ever lived, and he must hav beleaved in the doktrine ov total depravity, or he wouldn’t hav undertook tew tempt the Saviour.
A “gentleman about town,” iz one who pays cash for everything except hiz debts.
Money iz like charity, it kivvers a multitude ov sins.
A pedant iz one who fills himself in a cellar with the klam broth ov literature, and then picks hiz teeth in the society ov the learned.
Thare iz but little, if any, cerimony, between two wize men, but between a wize man and a phool, cerimony iz the only thing that will make a phool feel respektable.