Humor brings insight and tolerance.

Necessity knows no Sunday.

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.