Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.

He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

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