The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, nor in their proper sequence. That sense of harmony with place and season which is so strong in the historian--if he be a readable historian--is lamentably lacking in history, which takes no pains to verify his most convincing statements.

Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.