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

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

Mothers can get weaned as well as babies.

Life ain't all beer and skittles.

Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark,--open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture.

Nature's bank-dividends.