It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.

The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

Economics and ethics have little in common.

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

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.