Economics and ethics have little in common.

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

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

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.