No loose fish enters our quiet bay.

California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

Success is a great healer.

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.

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.