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.

The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.