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

When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.

History is not written in the interests of morality.

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 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.

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