It Is, Of Course, A Trifle, But

It Is With Nations As It Is With Individuals. A Book Of History Is A Book Of Sermons.

As A Rule, The More Bizarre A Thing Is, The Less Mysterious It Proves To Be.

Great Sorrow Or Great Joy Should Bring Intense Hunger--not Abstinence From Food, As Our Novelists Will Have It.

And Yet The Motives Of Women Are So Inscrutable. You Remember The Woman At Margate Whom I Suspected For The Same Reason. No Powder On Her Nose - That Proved To Be The Correct Solution. How Can You Build On Such A Quicksand? Their Most Trivial Action May Mean Volumes, Or Their Most Extraordinary Conduct May Depend Upon A Hairpin Or A Curling Tongs.

Streams May Spring From One Source, And Yet Some Be Clear And Some Be Foul.