“We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.”
“We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.”
“People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.”
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom”
“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse”
“A fool and his money are soon parted”
“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity ”
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards”