There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

Society's the mother of convention.

The wages of sin is alimony.

Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.

A living gale is better than a dead calm.

In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.