I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

A common fallacy: to imagine a measure will be easy because we have private motives for desiring it.

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.