Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year.

Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

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.

To forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?