People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

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

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.