Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.

A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.

The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.