It is higher and nobler to be kind.

France has usually been governed by prostitutes

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!

What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.