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

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Love looks through a telescope envy, through a microscope.

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

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

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.