Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

There is no illusion so permanent as that which enables us to look backward with complacency; there is no mental process so deceptive as the comparing of recollections with realities.

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

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.

the most charming thing about youth is the tenacity of its impressions.

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 return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?