By "trampling upon the helpless abroad" with unchecked surveillance, Americans have learned, "by a natural process, to endure with apathy the like at home."

Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new.