If we could see the sekret motives that prompt even the good ackshuns ov
men, we should see more tew reprove than admire.
The best specimens ov calm resignashun tew their fate that I hav met
with thus far, hav been amung thoze who had an inkum ov 40 thousand
dollars a year, less government tax.
Diogenes and Seneca were two az grate philosophers az the world haz ever
produced; one lived in a tub, and the other in a palace.
Most ov the happiness in this world konsists in possessing what others
kant git.
Take all the phools and the good luk out of this world, and it would
bother menny ov us tew git a living.
Thare iz a grate menny ghosts travelling around loose, but no one ever
saw one yet.
Honesty iz like money, yu hav got tew work hard tew git it, and then
work harder to keep it.