To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

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.

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

It is better to support schools than jails.