Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at you, the little perils of routine living, but there is no escape in the unplanned tangent, the sudden turn.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.

American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.