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

Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

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

Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.

The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.