Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.