Circumstances alter cases.

There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.

Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.

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

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.

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

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