People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

Women are not so sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature; being less poetical, and having less imagination, they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make less failures in business.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-"just as good as the real."

It is only the fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

Have you any right to read, especially novels, until you have exhausted the best part of the day in some employment that is called practical?

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is, that your neighbor can do the same.

The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.