Thare might possibly be sum advantage, in entering a convent, if we could eskape from ourselfs, but go whare we will, we have tew keep company with one, who is able tew do us more hurt, than enny boddy else.
The meanest kind ov a loafer iz he, who iz willing tew be abuzed by every one, for the privilege ov abuzing others.
If it iz really a blessing tew die, it must hav been a curse to be born.
What iz the principal difference between poverty and ritches?—poverty kant be worse, and may be better; ritches kan be better, and may be worse,—the difference iz in favor of poverty.
We kant have a better evidence, ov the perversity ov human natur, than the fakt, that we arrive at wisdom, thru our adversity, instead ov thru our reazon.
A wize man never dispairs, when hope givs out, then cums resignashun.
The best way i kno ov tew repent ov enny thing, iz tew do better next time.
Pashion alwus lowers a grate man, but sumtimes elevates a little one.
Thare iz nothing more bekuming to enny man than humility, yet it iz about the last thing he thinks ov.
Too mutch reading, and too little thinking, haz the same effekt on a man’s mind, that too mutch eating, and too little exercise haz on hiz boddy.