Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

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

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.