The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

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.

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.