Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

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.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.