While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.