Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

Experience comes from bad judgment.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so