Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.