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

Sleep sweetly in the fields of asphodel, and waken, as of old, to stretch thy languid length, and purr thy soft contentment to the skies.

It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.