The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.

From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.

Everybody knows that fanaticism is religion caricatured; bears, indeed, about the same relation to it that a monkey bears to a man; yet, with many, contempt of fanaticism is received as a sure sign of hostility to religion.

Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.