It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.