The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.

The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp.

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

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

If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.