If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.

Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.