It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

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.

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.