Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

A tragedy means always a mans struggle with that which is stronger than man.

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

Now there is any amount of this nonsense cropping up among American cranks. Anybody may propose to establish coercive Eugenics; or enforce psychoanalysis that is, enforce confession without absolution.