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.

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.