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

We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.

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

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.