As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.

The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

Humor is the mistress of tears.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.