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

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.

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

Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.