Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?