A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.

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

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

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