The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles.

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

Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.

Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.