–he is a cross between a rooster, a monkey and a peacock–an unclassified nothing.

–you may be mistaken and may regret it as long as you live.  Sometimes there is a reaction.

are those who think but little of riches, think but little of fame, think but little of what the world thinks of them, think but little of how they appear to others.

–it will make you so chicken-hearted that you will be frightened at your own shadow.

–it is the height of boorishness.

–it is heating, and makes you a better subject for disease.  Eat  it sparingly.

a day spend three times as much money, as a rule, for tobacco, beer, whiskey, etc., as the millionaires.

if you were rich–the probability is, you would be a haughty fool.

when you have business relations with persons who have small, “pinched-up” noses and features–they are liable to be guilty of many little, insignificant things.

simply because thousands of others believe it–on many important subjects the majority of persons always have been wrong.

Nearly every person believed in slavery a few years ago–nearly every person believed the earth flat a few centuries since–nearly every person, a few years ago, believed all diseases to be the result of special providences, and even a few believe it yet–thus you see any thing can be believed.