"Faith is the soul riding at anchor."
- Josh Billings
"As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them."
"Nature never makes any blunders when she makes a fool she means it."
"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
"Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight."
"It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich."
"Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'."
"Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog."
"If you ever find happiness by hunting for it you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles safe on her nose all the time."
"Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing."