While art may instruct as well as please, it can nevertheless be true art without instructing, but not without pleasing.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

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

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.