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

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

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.

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.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.