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?

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value

I know that unremitting attention to business is the price of success, but I don't know what success is.

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.