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.

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?

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

adversity is so rough a teacher!

There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.

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