A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke
Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.