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

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

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

We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.

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

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.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.