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

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

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

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.