We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

Never do wrong when people are looking.

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

The southerner talks music.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.