If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.

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

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.