Piety, like beans, duz the best on a poor sile.
A good wife iz a sweet smile from heaven.
Angels handle the dice when doublets are thrown in the cradle.
If I waz going tew pick up some snake, i certainly should take holt of the further end ov him, this iz the way i handle all ov my subjekts, i find them less guarded thare.
A man don’t alwus grow wize az he grows old, but alwus grows old az he grows wize.
The biggest phool in this world haint bin born yet; thare iz plenty ov time yet.
A petted child iz like a bile that won’t cum tew a hed.
Publik honours, in this country, are quite often like the pcock’s tail, fust rate for a spread, but after they are shut up, the glory goes with the tail.
I had rather be a pot-bellied seed cowcumber, flung carelessly on a wood pile to ripen, than tew be an old bachelor.
Cannon balls—are the bulbous plants ov Liberty.