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

Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.