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

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.

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

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.