The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.

A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.

How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without bothering us, and bury themselves.