No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world..

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense..

We owe to one another all the wit and good humour we can command; and nothing so clears our mental vistas as sympathetic and intelligent conversation..

Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so m….

the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little l….

I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote..

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage..

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth..

It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension….

It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more….

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature..

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon th….

abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms ….

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence..

Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another….

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it..

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see..

if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him wit….

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities..

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by….

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way..