Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.

A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

Chess is one long regret.

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.