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

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

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

Dangers are sum like a kold bath, very dangerous while you stand stripped on the bank, but often not only harmless, but invigorating, if you pitch into them.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.