Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

Marrying a woman for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with your own finger.

There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.