Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil.

I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

Wall Street. - The abode of the Brokers and the Broke.

The wages of sin is alimony.

I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every feminine citizen of these United States wore an artificial posy on her coat or gown. I came home and ripped off every one of the really lovely refrigerator blossoms that were sewn on my own bodices.

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.