How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one? If man is so generally less happy in the cities than in the country, it is because all these variations and nuances of sight and smell and sound are less clearly marked and lost in the general monotony of gray walls and cement pavements.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

I feel, like all modern Americans, no consciousness of sin and simply do not believe in it. All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell. That is a final fact of my inner consciousness, and for no religion could I deny its truth.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted