The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.
We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.
Wit is the salt of conversation not the food and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
We may fail of our happiness strive we ever so bravely but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
The tourist may complain of other tourists but he would be lost without them.
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.