This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon ruined for him already.

Reality - Dreams = Animal Being Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism) Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism) Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism Dreams + Humor = Fantasy Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom