If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works.