The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

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

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.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.

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.