Humor brings insight and tolerance..

Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process..

Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are….

It is unwise to feel too much if we think too little..

Believers in political faith-healing enjoy a supreme immunity from doubt..

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second..

the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little l….

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those….

Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another….

The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think..

Sensuality, too, which used to show itself course, smiling, unmasked, and unmistakable, is now serious, analytic, and so burdened with a sense of its….

Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would….

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world..

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life..

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see..

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle..

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way..

I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint o….

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense..

Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so m….

Necessity knows no Sunday..