There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.