Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.