To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.

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

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

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!.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.