Caution, though very often wasted is a good risk to take.
Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.
Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.
The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.
Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.