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

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

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

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.