It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

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

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.