A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

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

Fact is stranger than fiction.

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

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

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