The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.

Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!

Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.

Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.