Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion..

A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward..

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young..

It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial..

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?.

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease..

What a sight there is in that "smile!" it changes like a chameleon. There is a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate, a satiric smile, an affec….

Hurry is only admissible in catching flies..

Fact is stranger than fiction..

Be it remembered that we command nature, as it were, by obeying nature's laws; so the woman who would control her husband does so through obedience..

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive..

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety..

Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights..

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.

The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart….

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously..

There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion..

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success..

A coxcomb is four-fifths affectation and one-fifth vanity..

Death and taxes are inevitable..

A temperate anger has virtue in it..