Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

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

Circumstances alter cases.

One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.

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

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