LXXVII Jaw Bones
Genius iz like a hop vine; it will run, and spread, enny how, and hav a whole lot ov wild hops on it, but tew be a good krop, it must be poled, and cut back, and suckered.
Precept iz a buck saw—experience the elbo grease that runs the cussid instrument.
Don’t talk tew much, Jessie; one half the wisdum ov this world consists in not saying ennything.
Thare iz nothing more dangerous tew most men than praize; it iz like filling them up with gunpowder, and then tutching them oph.
Patience, if it iz merely constitushional, don’t appear tew me to be enny more ov a virtue than kold feet are.