Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, 'good for this generation only,' and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy.

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.