Quotes by Oscar W. Firkins

“All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nationss professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.”

“Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the worlds economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.”

If our friends idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends idealizations.