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.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.

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

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.