Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.