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.

How strong sometimes is weakness!

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

Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

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

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