There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation.

It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.