Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best calendars.

Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.

Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.