There are a good many pious people who are as careful of their religion as of their best service of china, only using it on holy occasions, for fear it should get chipped or flawed in working-day wear.

Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.

Humor is the harmony of the heart.

Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.