It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.