It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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.