Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

Stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

The best servant does his work unseen.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them...