"What of it?"

"I really think he is becoming interested in our oldest daughter."

"There you go again with your pipe dreams! Last week it was a duke."


The chief end of a man in New York is dissipation; in Boston, conversation.


When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.—Cicero.


The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one,

May hope to achieve it before life be done;