It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
Circumstances alter cases.
Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.
Death and taxes are inevitable.
Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love.
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
When a man is wrong and won’t admit is, he always gets angry.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.