The _fear_ ov God iz the philosphy ov religion; the _love_ ov God iz the
charity of religion.
Hope iz a hen that lays more eggs than she kan hatch out.
Better leave yure child virtew than money; but this iz a sekret known
only tew a few.
I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what
ain't so.
About the hardest work a phellow kan do iz tew spark two galls at once,
and preserve a good average.
Prudery iz one ov virtews bastards.
A nickname will outline enny man or thing; it iz like the crook in a
dogg's taile, you may cut it oph, and throw it behind the barn, but the
crook is thare yet, and the stump iz the epitaph.
If yu analize what most men kall plezzure, yu will find it compozed ov
one part humbugg, and two parts pain.
When yu haint got nothing tew do, do it at once; this iz the way to
learn to be bizzy.
We hav bin told that the best way to overkum misfortunes iz tew fight
with them--I hav tried both ways, and recommend a successful dodge.
The art ov becomeing ov importance in the eyes ov others, iz not tew
overrate ourself, but tew cauze them tew do it.
The true way to understand the judgments ov heaven is to submit to them.
Method iz everything, espeshily tew ordinary men; the few men who kan
lift a ton, at plessure, hav a divine right tew take holt ov it tew a
disadvantage.
The mind ov man iz like a piece ov land that, tew be useful, must be
manured with learning, ploughed with energy, sown with virtew, and
harvested with ekonemy.
Whare religion iz a trade, morality iz a merchandize.
Conversashun should be enlivened with wit, not compozed ov it.
The less a man knows, the more he will guess at; and guessing iz nothing
more than suspicion.
Going tew law, iz like skinning a new milch cow for the hide, and giving
the meat tew the lawyers.
Death, tew most ov us, iz a kind ov "farewell benefit,"--"positively our
last appearance."
Phools are quite often like hornets, verry bizzy, but about what, the
Lord only knows.
Living on Hope, iz like living on wind, a good way tew git phull, but a
poor way tew git phatt.
Jealousy don't pay, the best it kan do, iz tew diskover what we don't
want tew find, nor don't expekt to.
Sekrets are a mortgage on friendships.
I don't think a bad man iz az dandgerous az a weak one--I don't think
that a bile that haz cum tew a hed, iz az risky as a hidden one, that
may cum tew a dozzen heds.
A vivid imaganashun iz like sum glasses, makes things at a distance look
twice az big as they am, and cluss to, twice as small az they am.
Hope iz a draft on futurity, sumtimes honored, but generally extended.
If the world dispizes a hypokrit, what must they think ov him in Heaven.
Flattery iz like Colone water, tew be smelt ov, not swallowed.
After all, there don't seem tew be but this diffrence between the wize
men and the phools; the wize men are all fuss and sum feathers, while
the phools are all fuss and no feathers.
Without friends and without enemys iz the last reliable ackount we hav
ov a stray dog.
Men generally, when they whip a mule, sware; the mule remembers the
swareing, but forgits the licking.
Sum folks wonder whare awl the lies cum from, but i don't, one good liar
will pizen a whole country.
Hunting after fame iz like hunting after fleas, hard tew ketch, and sure
tew make yu uneazy if yu dew or don't ketch them.
Menny people spend their time trieing tew find the hole whare sin got
into this world--if two men brake through the ice into a mill pond, they
had better hunt for sum good hole tew git out, rather than git into a
long argument about the hole they cum tew fall in.
Imaginashun, tew mutch indulged in, soon iz tortured into reality; this
iz one way that good hoss thiefs are made, a man leans over a fence all
day, and imagines the hoss in the lot belongs tew him, and sure enuff,
the fust dark night, the hoss does.
If you must chaw terbacker, young man, for Heaven's sake, chaw old
plugg, it iz the nastyest.