It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.

Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.