People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.