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

People with theories of life are, perhaps, the most relentless of their kind, for no time or place is sacred from their devastating elucidations.

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

Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

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

Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.