If you have a thrust to make at your friend's expense, do it gracefully, it is all the more effective. Some one says the reproach that is delivered w….

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government..

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

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?.

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

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

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….

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..

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….

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety..

Death and taxes are inevitable..

Fact is stranger than fiction..

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

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

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

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

Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights..

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

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

Hurry is only admissible in catching flies..

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