The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.
An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its responsibilities that it passes muster half the time as a new type of asceticism.
A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.