A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

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.

The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses or "caves in.

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.

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.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.