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.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

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

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

A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.

America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.