“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

“He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.”

“Ignorance leads men into a party, and shame keeps them from getting out again.”

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”

“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.”

“Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”

“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.”