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.

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

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

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ.

Impossible desires are the height of unreason.

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.