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

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

Neckties strangle clear thinking.

A tendency to fly too straight at a goal, instead of circling around it, often carries one too far.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

There is a great probability that our loss of capacity for enjoying the positive joys of life is largely due to the decreased sensibility of our senses and our lack of full use of them. All human happiness is sensuous happiness.