It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue.

What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table.

Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.