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.

Friendship takes time.

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

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

Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.