–better spend your time poking your finger in the water, pulling it out, and then looking for the hole.  Men who spend much time in tracing their ancestry are cranks.

–many of the greatest men of the world have been poor–they did not have time to get rich.

every time the train stops, nor every time there is any other excitement–it is not an evidence of refinement.

do not live happily together, until you have given up all hope and have determined to separate forever.  It is time enough then.

–it does not pay; besides, you may be their superior.

–the time may come when you will be as poor as the proverbial “Job’s turkey.”

the history of dead persons.  The living demand all your attention.

when it is cold–it is a source of great harm–secretive and modest women will not wear them at any time.

–you are liable to neglect your home, and may sometimes forget you have a husband.

–now or never.  Persons who expect to be happy next week or next year, instead of now, never are happy.