Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.

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

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.