The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin

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

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

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

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.