Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.

Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?

Why don't men ... leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and which hide so many handsomely-turned throats, that a body never sees, unless a body is married, or unless a body happens to see a body's brothers while they are shaving.