Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.