Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

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.

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.