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.

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

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

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.

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