Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.