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

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.