In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we….

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

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate..

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….

Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process..

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

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

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

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

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

We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach s….

Humor brings insight and tolerance..

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….

It is impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning..

Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things..

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….

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….

The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity….

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….

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….