Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

In America everyone called the merest acquaintance a ‘friend’ – Guy had taken up the habit. It made him feel better about not having any real friends.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.