The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

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.

Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.

If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.