It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of—but we never love again.