A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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

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

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.

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania.

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.