I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

“Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.”

“No vivacious Bacchanalian flame leaped out of the pressed grape of Monsieur Def…”

“The suspense: the fearful, acute suspense: of standing idly by while the life o…”

“He was a prosperous old bachelor, and his open window looked into a prosperous …”