There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. – Josh Billings
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. – Josh Billings

There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. – Josh Billings
I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. – Josh Billings
There are two kinds of fools: those who cant change their opinions and those who wont. – Josh Billings
There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. – Josh Billings
Jones Very is gone into the multitude as solitary as Jesus. In dismissing him, I seem to have discharged an arrow into the heart of Society. Wherever that young enthusiast goes, he will astonish and disconcert men by dividing for them the cloud that covers the gulf in man. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1838 journal, about Jones Very