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

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.