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

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

The Navy is very old and very wise.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.