The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

Decide on what you think is right, and stick to it.

Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

In every parting there is an image of death.

It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.