Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?

The best servant does his work unseen.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.