Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

None but an ass pays a compliment and asks a favour at the same time. There are many asses.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.