If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Some of the worst things in my life never even happened.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

Comparison is the death of joy.