Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies and harsh winds; of strong-nerved, stout-purposed, slow-thinking men and women. Above all, a land of sheltered homes and warm firesides - firesides that were waiting - waiting for the bubbling kettle and the fragrant breath of tea.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

If everybody floated with the tide of talk, placidity would soon end in stagnation. It is the strong backward stroke which stirs the ripples, and gives animation and variety.

There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

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