The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

According as the man is, so must you humor him.

One jests because one wants to contemplate.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.

He had a respect for facts maybe this was one.

He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

There are a great many obscene minds, yet more railing and satirical, but very few fastidious ones. A man must have good manners, be very polite, and even have a great deal of originality to be able to jest gracefully and be felicitous in his remarks about trifles; to jest in such a manner and to make something out of nothing is to create.

..to laugh is proper to the man.

I had often heard of the wonderful power of the President in telling anecdotes, but no one could form an adequate idea of his ability in this line unless he had been alone with him for ten days as I was. He had an illustration for everything, and if anything particular attracted his attention he would say, 'That reminds me of something that occurred when I was a lawyer in Illinois,' or 'when I was a boatman on the Mississippi.' He was not at all ashamed of any business he had ever been engaged in, because it was honest business, and he made an honest living by it; and he told me many stories of his earlier life, which were as creditable to him as anything he was engaged in while occupying a higher sphere.

I have that honour for him as to believe that he wrote good sense; and therefore take that sense to be his which is the best.

I have that honour for him as to believe that he wrote good sense; and therefore take that sense to be his which is the best.