 Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! |
| A loving heart is the truest wisdom. |
| Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! |
| That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society. |
| You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation. |
| Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. |
| Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. |
| Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions. Topics: Business |
| Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. |
| The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. |
| It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. |
| 'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby. |
| Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. |
| The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. |
| Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. |
| Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. |
| Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. |
| Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. |
| A boy's story is the best that is ever told. |
| This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. |
