Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.

But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.