Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage.

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves.

With faces like dead lovers who died true.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

according to the old joke, married people are often like little boys bathing, who cry with chattering teeth to the boys on the shore, 'Do come in, it's so warm' - it is not always warm.

Ethics, as has been well said, are the finest fruits of humanity, but they are not its roots

A person who is careless about money is careless about everything, and untrustworthy in everything.

It is not work that kills, but "worry."

Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Young Dandelion On a hedge-side Said young Dandelion Who'll be my bride? Said young Dandelion With a sweet air, I have my eye on Miss Daisy fair.

There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.

It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

Up with skirts, down with pants!'

The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human, It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.

No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.

If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.

The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.