Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
Punctuality is the soul of business.
Self-possession is the backbone of authority.
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.
Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.
Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.
Fact is stranger than fiction.
Hurry is only admissible in catching flies.
A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.
Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.
It is easier to make money than to save it. One is exertion, the other, self-denial.
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.
Death and taxes are inevitable.
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
The suspicious parent makes an artful child.
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.
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.
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, and remains forever.
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 affected smile; but, above all, a smile of love.
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.
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.
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.
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