Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

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.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.