The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court.

Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.

When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.

The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.