A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire, to our sons ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober, and you will still be ugly.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

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