Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.