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!

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

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.

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.