True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.

Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.

Friends are the sunshine of life.

Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.

Speak with the speech of the world; think with the thoughts of the few.