A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.

There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.

Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers