Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.

Pride seems tew be quite equally distributed; the man who owns the carriage and the man who drives it seem tew have it just alike.

You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

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

The nearest we can come to) perfect happiness is to cheat ourselves with the belief that we have got it.