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.

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

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

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

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

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