Humor is wit and love.

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.

I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.