Fools and drunken men alwus make this mistake, the one thinks they are sensible, and the other alwus think they are sober.
Deference iz the best kard i know ov tew play, it iz not 266 only eazier, but a grate deal more profitable to make 10 men think they are abuv you, than tew make one think you are abuv him.
Don’t forgit, yung man, that excesses in youth are a mortgage in favor ov disseaze by and by, which will not fail to forclose and enter on the premises.
I hav made a kluss kalkulashun on it, and i find that there aint more than 3 men, now on earth, nor never haint been, who kan kultivate an excentricity with suckcess.
I hate a crowd, bekauze crowds are made up ov people who aint ov much ackount, only tew help make up a crowd.
Don’t borry nor lend, but if you must do one, lend.
Giv me an inkum ov 10 thousand, 500 a year, and i will agree tew be a philosopher the rest ov mi days.
He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.
Faith beats both wisdum and learning.
Envy and jealousy are two pashunz, which no man haz ever yet been free from, and yet no man ever admits he iz possessed of them.