No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

To all new truths, or renovation of old truths, it must be as in the ark between the destroyed and the about-to-be renovated world. The raven must be sent out before the dove, and ominous controversy must precede peace and the olive wreath.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.