A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward BeecherBoys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
Henry Ward Beecher