After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.