Why does not the kitten betray some of the attributes common to the adult puss? A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus... common sense. We never hear our friends say they love puppies, but cannot bear dogs. A kitten is a thing apart; and many people who lack the discriminating enthusiasm for cats, who regard these beautiful beasts with aversion and mistrust, are won over easily, and cajoled out of their prejudices, by the deceitful wiles of kittenhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enoug...h 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are... not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a mo...re agreeable name.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pessimist ... is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to t...hrust his views upon the unconvinced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »