We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations..

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….

A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, ….

The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, a….

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals..

The perfectly natural thing to do with an unreadable book is to give it away; and the publication, for more than a quarter of a century, of volumes w….

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….

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth..

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….

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it..

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….

There are people who balk at small civilities on account of their manifest insincerity. ... It is better and more logical to accept all the polite ph….

Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering ….

Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leav….

Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another'….

Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue..

Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating and abundant drunkenness; of gray skies an….

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble..

By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing….

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century..

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 ….