I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational shooting up of "smartness"--a bright feather, to be blown into space the second after it is launched...Wit seems to be counted a very poor relation to Humour....Humour is never artificial.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.

It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.