what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.

Love's a disease. But curable.

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.