Sekrets are a mortgage on friendships.
I don’t think a bad man iz az dandgerous az a weak one—I don’t think that a bile that haz cum tew a hed, iz az risky as a hidden one, that may cum tew a dozzen heds.
A vivid imaganashun iz like sum glasses, makes things at a 288 distance look twice az big as they am, and cluss to, twice as small az they am.
Hope iz a draft on futurity, sumtimes honored, but generally extended.
If the world dispizes a hypokrit, what must they think ov him in Heaven.
Flattery iz like Colone water, tew be smelt ov, not swallowed.
After all, there don’t seem tew be but this diffrence between the wize men and the phools; the wize men are all fuss and sum feathers, while the phools are all fuss and no feathers.
Without friends and without enemys iz the last reliable ackount we hav ov a stray dog.
Men generally, when they whip a mule, sware; the mule remembers the swareing, but forgits the licking.
Sum folks wonder whare awl the lies cum from, but i don’t, one good liar will pizen a whole country.