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.

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

Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

Lovers of the town have been content, for the most part, to say they loved it. They do not brag about its uplifting qualities. They have none of the infernal smugness which makes the lover of the country insupportable.

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.