Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

Absurdities die of self-strangulation.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.