Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.