As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.

It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man's parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents.

In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.

A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days?

What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.