Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business.

A temperate anger has virtue in it.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

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

If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered with hat in hand is the most telling.

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