He who would pluck contentment must abandon force. * * * * * To console a widow is more agreeable than to court a maid. * * * * * The man who stains the purity of a woman tarnishes his own soul. * * * * * It is difficult to distinguish the fleshy lie from the ghostly truth. * * * * * The private ownership of land is crystalized in the question "Is the unborn child an heir or a bastard?" * * * * * Love of the artistic does not account for the crookedness of men, though the curve is the only true line of beauty. * * * * * Sly women walk where blunt men fall. * * * * * The stench of corruption is fragrant to the lobbyist. * * * * * A shrivelled soul may hide in a bishop's paunch. * * * * * A slippery friend is more dangerous than thin ice. * * * * * The kangaroo and the miser carry all they love in a pouch. * * * * * You cannot staunch a bleeding wound with a memory or a promise. * * * * * Marriage is a covenant which few women refuse and many revoke. * * * * * Emotion in woman is the locomotive--wisdom, the cow-catcher. * * * * * A misfit policy is as dangerous to a statesman as a misfit dress to a woman. * * * * * The sting of a bee is not the less to be dreaded because the bee makes honey. * * * * * Creed is as akin to righteousness as a 'bucket shop' to the kingdom of heaven. * * * * * An act cannot die. * * * * * To exist is not to live. * * * * * Degeneracy is born of many parents. * * * * * The rich man gives advice, the poor man bread. * * * * * Happiness is now a theory, I would make it a fact. * * * * * The statute of limitation runs not against evil deeds. * * * * * The quickest cure for a passionate longing is a cold woman. * * * * * Through lapse of time the few claim the inheritance of the many. * * * * * The cause of truth will not triumph so long as it is intrusted to fools. * * * * * If the weakness of the present industrial system were realized it would cease to be dangerous. * * * * * Snakes eggs are hatched by the sun. Misers eggs--gold--by labor. Young snakes hiss at their mother, misers at men. * * * * *