The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

What is meant by a "knowledge of the world" is simply, an acquaintance with the infirmities of men

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

If your governor don't prove a alleybi, he'll be what the Italians call reg'larly flummoxed

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Say, like those wicked Turks, there is no What's-his-name but Thingummy, and What-you-may-call-it is his prophet!