Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt.
By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.
Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.