Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

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

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.

There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

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.