It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

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.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.