“Ambition is like hunting for whales – sometimes you lose them.”

If you can’t help, don’t hinder.

There are always more fish in the pond.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Do as you would be done by.

Action without thought is like shooting without aim.

An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit.

Do a good deed every day.

The young may die; the old must die.

If you can’t lick `em, join `em.

The world is a ladder for some to go up and others down.

Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.

Distance is the best remedy against an evil-disposed man.

A farmer on his knees is higher than a gentleman on his legs.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

A little bit of powder and a little bit of paint make a woman look like what she ain’t.

From middle age on, everything of interest is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Distrust a prairie-dog and fix it.