Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile. – Christy Mathewson
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.
The bright summer had passed away, and gorgeous autumn was flinging its rainbow-tints of beauty on hill and dale. – Cornelia L. Tuthill, “Virginia Dare: Or, the Colony of Roanoke,” 1840
