Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. When you make a decision to "be" a particular way, you can count on change and external circumstances to come along which will challenge that decision. Remain vigilant after declaring a major decision and manage yourself in relationship to the goal. Set up structures that support you staying on target.

Travel is fatal to bigotry.

If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.