It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

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

When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.