Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.

The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.

I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.

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