Now what is a guest? A thing of a day! A person who disturbs your routine and interferes with important concerns. Why should any one be grateful for company? Why should time and money be lavished on visitors? They come. You overwork yourself. They go. You are glad of it. You return the visit, because it's the only way to have back at them.

a trouble shared is a trouble half endured.

I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One cannot change to the other any more than that same old leopard can change its spots. After a man tells a woman the first untruth of that sort, the others come piling thick, fast, and mountain high.

The seasons run with swift feet.

there was nothing in the whole world so dreadful as the power of riches wrongly used.

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.