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

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

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.

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.

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.