The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are.

Economics and ethics have little in common.

When the milk of human kindness turns sour, it is a singularly unpalatable draught.

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

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

The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin