James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. Haliburton
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy: the smile that accepts the lover before the words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures it of a mother’s love. 1 Cheerfulness is health; the opposite, melancholy, is disease. 2 Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark; open the door, and it is off for ever. 3 Failures are with heroic minds the stepping-stones to success. 4 God has made sunny spots in the heart; why should we exclude the light from them? 5 Harvests are Nature’s bank dividends. 6 Hear one side, and you will be in the dark; hear both, and all will be clear. 7 Hope is not the man for your banker, though he may do for your travelling companion. 8 Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. 9 No man is rich whose expenditures exceed his means; and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. 10 When a man is wrong and won’t admit it, he always gets angry. 11
