Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.