I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker.

We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.