Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

But self-satisfaction, if as buoyant as gas, has an ugly trick of collapsing when full blown, and facts are stony things that refuse to melt away in the sunshine of a smile.

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

The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

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

Art... does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.