I try all things, I achieve what I can.

Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.

Traveling takes the ink out of one's pen as well as the cash out of one's purse.

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.