One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

Habit is the beneficent harness of routine which enables silly men to live respectfully and unhappy men to live calmly

Correct English is the slang of prigs.

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music.