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

It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

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