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

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

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

As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.

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.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.