The man who iz alwus anxious tew assume a responsibility, iz either a phool, or a knave, i dont kno which.
If yu want to klime a tree yu hav got tew begin at the bottom.
As spunky people az i hav ever known have been az arrant kowards.
I had mutch rather _alwuss_ look forward tew the time, when i am going tew ride in a carriage, than tew look bak _once_ tew the time when i used to do it.
A certain amount of cerimony seems tew be necessary to run the soshul masheen with, but when pholks git so mutch cerimony on hand, that they have tew be formaly introduced every time they meet at an evening meeting, i think that they hav wore the flesh all oph from cerimony.
When i cum akrost people who are perfektly krazy for ventilashun, i say to miself, "that kritter was brought up in a windmill."
The majority ov the world are like rats, they live upon plunder and forsake a sinking ship.
Punktuality is one grate element ov sukcess.
A watch that dont keep korrekt time is wuss than no watch at all.
Grate powers are useful only az they are made serviceable--the value ov a hoss depends upon hiz being well broke.
Too mutch branes iz rather a hindrance than a help to a simply bizzness man.
A praktikal joke iz like a fall on the ice, thare may be phun in it, but the one that falls kant alwus see it.
The soundest wisdum cums from experience, but thare iz a nearer road to it allmost az sure--reading and reflekshun.
He who reads and don't reflekt, iz like the one who eats and don't exercise.
The best reformers the world haz ever seen are thoze who commense on themselfs.
He who simply repents ov a sin pays only 50 cents on a dollar, while he who forsakes it pays one hundred.
The more a person hunts for the mote in hiz brother's eye the plainer he will diskover--if he iz a man ov sense--the beam in his own.
People are more apt tew make a shield ov their religion than they are a pruning-hook.
Religion iz too often kut az the clothes are, ackording tew the prevailing fashun.
It iz eazier tew be virtewous than it iz tew appear so, and it pays better.
Wicked men should pay homage tew virtew, for though they do not honor her she iz their gratest safeguard.
The man who haint got enny religion tew defend won't defend ennything.
