I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.

For the profit of travel: in the first place, you get rid of a few prejudices.... The prejudiced against color finds several hundred millions of people of all shades of color, and all degrees of intellect, rank, and social worth, generals, judges, priests, and kings, and learns to give up his foolish prejudice.

The grand points in human nature are the same to-day they were a thousand years ago. The only variability in them is in expression, not in feature.

I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel--you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety--& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.

Everyone knows that in most people's estimation, to do anything cooly is to do it genteelly.

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.