The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

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

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.

The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.

The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.

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?

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.