I rather admire the insolent civility ov a bull-tarrier, who only growls when i pass by him, but i never did like it in a man.
To be a good critic, requires more brains and judgment than most men possess.
It requires more good judgment to kno when tew talk, than what tew say.
The reason whi comik lektring is so hard tew do, iz bekauze most people go tew hear it out ov kuriosity, and kuriosity iz the hardest kind ov a thing tew suit.
Good books, mi dear, are the best friends yu kan hav, they never will cloy, and never will betray you.
A complasent man makes every boddy pleased with him, and what iz more, pleazed with themselfs.
If we couldn’t neither laff nor kry, what miserable kritters we should be.
When a man gits so low down that he iz willing tew be despized, he has tuched bottom.
After all, great conversashional powers make a man more feared than beloved.
In grate crowds ov persons, like grate floks ov birds, thare iz mutch more noise and chattering than sense.