Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.

San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.

Funny how the new things are the old things.

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods

You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.