One of the best temporary cures for pride and affection is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. – Josh Billings
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. – Josh Billings
It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. – Josh Billings
Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into. – Josh Billings
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practised at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness. – Holbrook Jackson