A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

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.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

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

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