Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.

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.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

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

In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own reward.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.