Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different.

In onion is strength; and a garden without it lacks flavour. The onion, in its satin wrappings, is among the most beautiful of vegetables; and it is the only one that represents the essence of things. It can almost be said to have a soul.

Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.

Nothing shows one who his friends are like prosperity and ripe fruit.