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.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.