Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.