To take the world as one finds it

Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.

Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason

The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code.

Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.