A lie iz good for a short race, but it takes truth tew run the heats—“blood will tell.”
Thare iz a huge number ov souls perambulating around the world who hav bin straining for years after a camel and finally had to swallow a nat.
We should awl aim at perfeckshun, but no one but a phool will expekt tew reach it.
Pride livs on itself, it iz like a raccoon in winter, keep fatt bi sucking its claws.
Laffing devils are the most dangerous. If i had a mule that wouldn’t neither kik nor bite, i should watch him dredful spry till i found out whare hiz malice lay.
GNATS.
I dont kno az it iz a very difficult thing tew be a good injun up in heaven, but tew cum down here and be a good injun, iz just whare the tite spot cums in.
Forgiving our enemys haz the same refreshing effekt upon our souls az it duz tew confess our sins.
What a lamentable cuss man iz, he pittys hiz nabors misfortunes, bi calling them judgments from heaven.
Wize men go thru this world az boys go tew bed in the dark, whistling tew shorten the distance.