To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.