Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.