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.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

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.