Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

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.

You'd better not know so much, than to know so many things that ain't so.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.