A man often envies another man his physical qualities—rarely his mental. As we have no soul mirror we cannot see the reflection of our spiritual deformities.
It is easy to have conscientious scruples when they are profitable.
The man who marries for money is a fool, but rarely as big a fool as he who marries for love.
When you have done a man a favor do not insist too earnestly that it is a mere trifle, or he may take you at your word and not trouble to repay it; which would be very disappointing.
The gentle art of making enemies is the one natural accomplishment which is common to all sorts and conditions of men—and women.
What we think of ourselves combined with what others think of us is a very fair estimate.
If a girl cannot make up her mind between two men it is because she has no mind worth making up.
Besides, any man who will knowingly be one of two is not worth the trouble of thinking about.
If we devoted as much attention to our own affairs as we freely give to those of others, we and others would be gainers.
Merit, like the show inside a circus, is of comparatively little use as a drawing card; it is the bluff and buncombe the banging drum and megaphone of the barker which is the successful magnet.
We always know what we should do under certain circumstances, but unfortunately we never find circumstances arranged so as to suit what we do.
An over sensitive conscience is simply the evidence of spiritual dyspepsia. The man who has it is no better than his fellows.
Generosity, as commonly understood, consists in forcing upon others that for which one has no use.
There is a greater difference between really thinking and only thinking that we think than most of us think.
We rashly demand that the devil shall have his due, forgetting that if that gentleman gets all that is coming to him it will go badly with some of us.
If women knew themselves as well as they know men—and if men knew women as well as they know themselves—things would be very much as they are.
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