There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.
Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.
The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
