“The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.”

“The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.”

“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”

“He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.”

“Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.”

“I magnified, as usual, the impression any word or deed of mine could produce on others.”

“Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.”