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

Avarice fills its purse at the expense of its belly.

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

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

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

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.