Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Nature's bank-dividends.

As soon as a woman begins to dress "loud," her manners and conversation partake of the same element.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.

Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

Punctuality is the soul of business.