There never yet was a mother who taught her child to be an infidel.
Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.
Zoroaster said, when in doubt abstain; but this does not always apply. At cards, when in doubt take the trick.
Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.
Men are seldom underrated; the mercury in a man finds its true level in the eyes of the world just as certainly as it does in the glass of a thermometer.
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.