Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.