To myself I am only a child playing on the beach while vast oceans of truth...
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction...
If I have done the public any service it is due to my patient thought.
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore and diverting myself now and then...
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.
