We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true--humor.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.