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.

Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

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

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

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.