My Evening Visitors, If They Cannot See

No Orator Can Top The One Who Can Give Good Nicknames.

How Casually And Unobservedly We Make All Our Most Valued Acquaintances.

The Art Of Conversation, Or The Qualification For A Good Companion, Is A Certain Self-control, Which Now Holds The Subject, Now Lets It Go, With A Respect For The Emergencies Of The Moment.

Sympathy Is A Supporting Atmosphere, And In It We Unfold Easily And Well.

The Lessons Of Science Should Be Experimental Also. The Sight Of A Planet Through A Telescope Is Worth All The Course On Astronomy; The Shock Of The Electric Spark In The Elbow Outvalues All Theories; The Taste Of The Nitrous Oxide, The Firing Of An Artificial Volcano, Are Better Than Volumes Of Chemistry.