Friendship takes time.

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

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

Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so strong in the historian--if he be a readable historian--is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.