The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.

A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.