I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base