To carry care to bed, is to sleep with a pack on your back.

The great secret of life is to learn lessons, not to teach them.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend. Hope is not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry.

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.

in Brown, Sayings that Never Grow Old