The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.