Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.