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.

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.

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

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

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

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