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.

Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

The student of arithmetic who has mastered the first four rules of his art, and successfully striven with money sums and fractions, finds himself confronted by an unbroken expanse of questions known as problems.

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

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.