I don’t kno ov ennything that will kill a man so quick az praize that he don’t deserve.
Repentanse should be the effekt ov love—not fear.
The soul haz more disseases than the boddy haz.
Things that we kant do wouldn’t be ov enny use to us, if we could do them.
Amongst animals the most ignorant are the most stubborn, and i wonder if this ain’t so amungst men.
A phool seems tew be a person who haz more will than judgment, and more vanity than either.
The fust intimashun i had that i waz gitting old waz, i found myself telling to mi friends the same storys over again.
In repenting ov sins, men are apt tew repent ov thoze they haint got, and overlook thoze they hav.
A dandy never yet fell in love—only with himself.
Revenge sumtimes sleeps, but vanity always keeps one eye open.