The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but tho….

real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another..

The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to hono….

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment..

Economics and ethics have little in common..

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invi….

Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any de….

There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have bee….

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth..

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity..