Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment!
Love the sea? I dote upon it - from the beach.
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution " the old one.
Quality not quantity is my measure.
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
Honest bread is very well - it's the butter that makes the temptation.
If slander be a snake it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I was a grave digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now if I were a grave-digger or even a hangman there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time it's ten to one if they hang long together.
Australia is so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Earth is here so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Some people's hearts are shrunk in them like dried nuts. You can hear 'em rattle as they walk.
My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.
Never have a friend that's poorer than yourself.
