The final result of too much routine is death in life.

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.

A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.

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.

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.

There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.