Titles are valuable; they make us acquainted with many persons who otherwise would be lost among the rubbish.

Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.