True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.