A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.

Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetic.

I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.