Every man is important if he loses his life;and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.

The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it all the easier to be united for no reason.

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

The true object of human life is play.