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.

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

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

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

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

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.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.