If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.

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.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.