Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.

We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.

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

A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

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.