I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor.

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

As leopard feels at home with leopard.

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.