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

When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind, it is liable to be seized at any moment by an importunate desire to contemplate Morocco or Labrador.

Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

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