Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate.

Necessity knows no Sunday.

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.