Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.

They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents, where it belongs, and thrown it upon a gang of irresponsible and unintelligent quacks.

The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.

Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.