The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.