Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.

Lawyers are like priests; people come to them and disburden themselves of their troubles, and get consolation, if they pay well for it; but there is one point in which they don't treat them like priests; they don't confess all their sins; they suppress them, and often get themselves and their counsel into a scrape by it, that's a fact.

Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already, and neglected it.

Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark, -- open the door, and it is off forever. The bird that roams through the sky and the groves unrestrained knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself; but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture.

An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink.

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

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 with hat in hand is the most telling.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

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

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born baby, and assures it of a mother's love.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

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

Ceremony is all backbone.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual one; the kiss of love, of joy, and of sorrow; the seal of promise and receipt of fulfillment.

If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?

Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon.