Necessity knows no Sunday..

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out..

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human hear….

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them..

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance..

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them..

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting..

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and une….

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania..

Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt..

The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs….

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable..

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought..

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor..

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path..

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

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'….

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..

The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned..

The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of….

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times..