We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.

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

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.