Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

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

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.