The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works.

When in doubt tell the truth.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

Love heightens all senses - except the common.

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

When angry, count to a hundred.