Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.