Why don't men ... leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and which hide so many handsomely-turned throats, that a body never sees, unless a body is married, or unless a body happens to see a body's brothers while they are shaving.

Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.

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

A little oil makes machinery work easy.