Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when we are old and ugly, woman snubs and scolds us. On the whole, then, woman in this scale, the weed in that. Jupiter! Hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee, O Jupiter, try the weed.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.