Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.

He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.