The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

A man who owns a dog is, in every sense of the words, its master; the term expresses accurately their mutual relations. But it is ridiculous when applied to the limited possession of a cat.

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.

The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.