The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless.

Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.

The average man don't like trouble and danger.

In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.