Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

The problem with education is school.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.