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

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.