It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

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

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.

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

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.