O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.

Success never needs an excuse.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

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

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?