Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation-and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain. We all know the air can be navigated-therefore, hurry up your sails and bladders-satisfy us-let us have peace.

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.