I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.