There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

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

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.