Natur kan be improved upon often with good effekt, but to alter it generally spiles the whole thing.
Affliktions are like the summers sun—they wilt for the purpuss ov ripening.
If yu want to find out a man’s real disposishun, take him when he iz wet and hungry. If he iz aimable then, dry him and fill him up, and you hav got an angel.
The man who haz never bin tempted, dont kno how dishonest he iz.
Thare iz nothing like a sick bed for repentance. A man bekums so virtewous that he will often repent ov sins that he never haz committed.
Three skore year and ten iz the time allotted to man, and it iz enuff. If a man kant suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be knumb.
It dont take mutch tew prove a truth. It iz only a lie that requires grate argumentatiff ability.
Listen tew every mans opinyuns, disagree with none, but confide in yure own. This iz a kind ov flattery that wrongs no one.
What a man gains in cunning he alwus lozes in wisdum.
He who wont beleave ennything he kant understand, aint so wize az a mule—for they will kick at a thing they dont expekt tew reach.