Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

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

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

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

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.