What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

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.