A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

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.

Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.