Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.

A profit is not without honor save in Boston.

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

... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me that he traveled a thousand miles into the desert to get away from the word uplift, and it was the first word he heard after he reached his destination.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

Society's the mother of convention.

I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.