Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.