In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

In the creation of comedy, it is paradoxical that tragedy stimulates the spirit of ridicule; because ridicule, I suppose is an attitude of defiance: we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane

To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Greed has poisoned men's souls.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.