I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
Laurence SterneI often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, — and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes — each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs — quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words.
Laurence Sterne