Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.