it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

Necessity knows no Sunday.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!