One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

Politics make strange bedfellows.

The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

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

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.