Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

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

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.

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.