The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.

Sanity, soundness, and sincerity, of which gleams and strains can still be found in the human brain under powerful microscopes, flourish only in a culture of clarification, which is now becoming harder and harder to detect with the naked eye.

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

A husband should not insult his wife publicly, at parties. He should insult her in the privacy of the home.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.