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.

Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!

Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.

Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education or station) have the magnanimity to use justly, generously, the power which the law puts in their hands.

A little oil makes machinery work easy.

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

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