 Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. |
| Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. |
| It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. |
| It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. |
| The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. |
| A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. |
| There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. |
| The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them. |
| It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. |
| The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. |
| Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt. |
| There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join. |
| It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning. |
| Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about. |
| Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. |
| The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth. |
| We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh. |
| It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. |
| People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. |
| It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh. |
