Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.

A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.