It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.