For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they are--else there would beno dealing with them.

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.

Is it not an amazing thing, that men shall attempt to investigate the mystery of the redemption, when, at the same time that it is propounded to us as an article of faith solely, we are told that "the very angels have desired to pry into it in vain"?

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

Human nature is the same in all professions.