whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

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

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

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

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.