Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

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

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.

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.