Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.