A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.