Reputashun iz like money—the principal is often lost by putting it out at interest.
Jealousy is nothing more than vanity, for if we love another more than we do ourselfs we shant be jealous.
Thare iz lots ov folks in this world who, rather than not find enny fault at all, wouldn’t hesitate tew say tew an angle worm, that hiz tail waz altogether too long for the rest ov hiz boddy.
Thare iz menny who are kut out for smart men, but who won’t pay for making up.
Envy iz an insult tew a man’s good sense; for envy iz the pain we feel at the excellencies ov others.
How menny people thare iz whoze souls lay in them, like the pith in a goose quill.
ODS AND ENS.
Natur never makes enny blunders. When she makes a phool she means it.
I hav finally cum tew the konklusion that the majority ov mankind kan be edukated on the back better than in the brain, for good clothes will often make a phool respectable, while edukashun only serves tew show his weak pints.
I never knu a man yet whoze name waz George Washington Lafayette Goodrich, Esq., and who alwus sighned hiz name for the full amount, but what waz a bigger man on paper than he waz by natur.