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

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.

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

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

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

The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.

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