fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals..

Cats, even when robust, have scant liking for the boisterous society of children, and are apt to exert their utmost ingenuity to escape it. Nor are t….

The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly….

When the contemplative mind is a French mind, it is content, for the most part, to contemplate France. When the contemplative mind is an English mind….

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life..

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention..

The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or t….

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler..

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end..

Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs….

Humor brings insight and tolerance..

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt..

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature..

The English possess too many agreeable traits to permit them to be as much disliked as they think and hope they are..

The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can t….

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….

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything..

[Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, n….

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be soft….

If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee ….

It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is ex….