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

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.

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

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.

Absurdities die of self-strangulation.