Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.