The suspicious parent makes an artful child.
Just what part of meow don’t you understand?
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
A man is never astonished that he doesn’t know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.
As soon as a woman begins to dress “loud,” her manners and conversation partake of the same element.
He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.
A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.
If you have a thrust to make at your friend’s expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.
Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.
Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.
Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.
People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.
Look not to a woman’s head for her brains, but rather to her heart.
Money is a necessity; so is dirt.
Life ain’t all beer and skittles.
What a sight there is in that “smile!” it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.
Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.
Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.