Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out of his pocket and planted it, so deal with your compliments through life. An acorn costs nothing, but it may spread into a prodigious timber.

Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.

The best of women are hypocrites.

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.