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

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.

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

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

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

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.

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.