The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

To-day well, my Utopia, if ever I framed one, would be a land where the laws demanded that people should be vicious. Then one would be able to count at any rate on a little...

I walked back by way of the sea-lions’ enclosure to refresh my eyes with the King Penguin’s perfect ecclesiastical tailoring. He was pacing moodily about as usual, in what one felt to be the interval...

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.