There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.

A nation that has nothing but its amusements will not be amused for long.

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

La mejor prueba de la cultura y la liberalidad de un hombre es su actitud ante las cosas que nunca sucedieron.

"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.