The love that a man gains by flattery, is worth just about az mutch az the flattery is.
“Happy as a king,” iz a libel on happiness, and on the king to.
If you will be familiar, you must expekt tew loose the confidence ov phools, and the esteem ov the wize.
Learning iz a good deal like strength, it requires good hoss sense tew know how tew apply it.
Grate men are knot bi enny means the best ov companyuns, they seldum kan ever enjoy themselfs.
Confess yure sins tew the Lord, and yu will be forgiven, confess them tew men, and yu will be laffed at.
Impudence is nothing more than open hipokrasy.
About the most we kan hope in our old age iz tew endure the thoughts ov what we enjoyed when we waz young.
There iz only one good substitute for the endearments ov a sister, and that iz the endearments ov sum other pheller’s sister.