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

A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity.

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

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

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

Life ain't all beer and skittles.