Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

Politics make strange bedfellows.

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.