God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their opposites. It is a humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequities of existence, prompting tolerant views of life, bridging over the space which separates the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble.