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

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

Wit is a thing capable of proof.