I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.

A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.