All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since they are also above the reach of the ablest minds in the country; after all the fuss and all the talk, not one of those doctrines has been conclusively proven to be the right one and the best.

I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.