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

The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

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

It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

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.

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path.