There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join

There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Wit is a thing capable of proof.