Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

Sometimes people do get hurt