Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.

Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.

I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.