It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.
Humor brings insight and tolerance.
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
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 clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.