Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.

Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.