Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

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

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

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.