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.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

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

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

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

I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.