In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

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.

real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

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