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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

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It is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may expect the most efficient service.

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What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

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From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents.
From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks.
From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality.
From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.

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I believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them.

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Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.

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