“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.