It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any nation but to truth and goodness. The idea of patriotism would have no place either in our dictionaries or our lives.

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind