Those who think that in order to dress well it is necessary to dress extravagantly or grandly, make a great mistake. Nothing so well becomes true feminine beauty as simplicity.
Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.
Gone! gone forever!-like a rushing wave Another year has burst upon the shore Of earthly being-and its last low tones, Wandering in broken accents in the air, Are dying to an echo.
A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him.
What some name well being, if bought by perpetual nervousness about weight loss plan, is not a lot better than tedious illness.
If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.
A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.
A good many men and women want to get possession of secrets just as spendthrifts want to get money-for circulation.
A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.
Time knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, and night's deep darkness has no chain to bind his rushing pinion.
He is a first-rate collector who can, upon all occasions, collect his wits.
It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
Prudery is often immodestly modest; its habit is to multiply sentinels in proportion as the fortress is less threatened.
Remorseless time! fierce spirit of the glass and scythe,--what power can stay him in his silent course, or melt his iron heart with pity!
