The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.