To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Novelty is both delightful and deceptive.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

Journalists grow accustomed to seeing evil and they let it pass; they proceed to approve it, and they end by committing it themselves.

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

All human power is a compound of time and patience.