After a man haz got a good opinyun ov himself, the next best thing iz tew hav the good opinyun ov others. Most enny boddy thinks they kan be a good phool, and they kan, but tew play the phool good iz not so handy. It may be a leetle vexashus, but i don’t konsider it enny disgrace tew be bit bi a dog. Abuse generally iz helthy, but sumtimes it cums from so low a source that it don’t do a man enny good. It takes more time and tallents tew be a suckcessful hypokrit than it duz tew be a christian. Thare are but phew things that we suffer more misery from than we do from cowardice. The cluss intimacys ov old age seem tew konsist in kompareing gouts and rumatiss. Mankind in general seem tew take about az mutch pride in bragging ov their faults az ov their virtews. About the best that enny ov us kan do iz tew konceal our phailings. Persons ov the koldest naturs when they do love, love the fiercest--so green wood when it gits tew burning makes the hottest fire. Suckcess iz az hard tew define az falling oph from a log, a man kant alwuss tell exackly how he did it. Thare iz one pashun (and it iz the meanest one) that no man who haz ever lived, haz been free from, and that iz envy. Indolence iz one ov the strongest pashuns, becauze it iz one ov the most natral ones. Integrity in youth iz allmost certain tew bekum wisdum, and honor in old age. Thare iz no person worth being jealous ov who iz willing tew be the kause ov it. Wise men hav but phew konfidants, and cunning ones, none. Heaven iz ever kind tew us, she puts our humps on our backs, so that we kant see them. The genuine christians are the laffing ones, the man who haz tew watch hiz morality all the time for fear it will kik up its heels iz phull ov the devil’s oats. Hunting for a honest man iz just about as mutch like work az trieing tew trace out a kat’s pedigree. Most ov the excentricitys we meet with amung men iz mere affektashun. Pashunce iz a good thing for a man tew hav, provided he don’t hav too mutch ov it; thare iz a point at which pashunce begins tew be ignorance. Take the mistery out ov things and they lose two-thirds of their attrackshun. When a man iz thoroughly lazy, he iz good for nothing only tew shoot at. Thare would be but mighty phew sekrets in this world if folks would tend tew their own bizness. The man who wears out iz like a nimble sixpence--he iz alwus worth the face, and keeps bright to the last. Yu may make a mistake in a man’s kapacity, but yu kant in hiz vanity. Natur never haff-finishes a job, nor underlets a kontrakt. Take all the dangers out ov this world and it would be a coward’s paradise. Thare ain’t ennything that will kompletely kure lazyness, but i hav known a seckond wife tew hurry it sum. A good naturd man haz got one ov them kind ov souls that will gro ennything that iz planted in it, good, bad, or indiffirent. Human happiness iz sutch an eazy, simple thing that thoze who hav the most ov it kno it the least.