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.

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

The cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.