The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

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

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.