It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man i…

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.