Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are they without adult sympathy in their prejudice.

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt.

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

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who lack vitality. There is a vague impression that the world would be a good world if it were only happy, that it would be happy if it were amused, and that it would be amused if plenty of artificial recreation - that recreation for which we are now told every community stands responsible - were provided for its entertainment.