The suspicious parent makes an artful child.

There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture.