By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

[I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it.

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.