The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

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

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

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.