Life ain't all beer and skittles.

Money is a necessity; so is dirt.

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

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.

What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.

Circumstances alter cases.

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.