Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.

If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.