We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

A world of vested interests is not a world which welcomes the disruptive force of candor.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.