“Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit takes their place.”
"What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us?" (1897)
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Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 197

“Time bears away all things, even our minds.”
Omnia fert aetas, animum quoque.
Book IX, line 51
Eclogues (37 BC)

Source: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 4