There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.

...But why discourse Upon the Virtues of the Horse? They are too numerous to tell Save when you have a Horse to Sell.

Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

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

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.