A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.