Some things are better eschewed than chewed; tobacco is one of them.

Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.

Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.