Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

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

If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

Absurdities die of self-strangulation.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.