In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.

[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.

the only revenge worth having is success.

No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.