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

The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

Friendship takes time.

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.