'At present I would prefer not to be a little reasonable,' was his mildly cadaverous reply.

Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining …

Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.

His was the scorn which thinks it not worth the while to be scornful. Those he most scorned, never knew it.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I rea…

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.