I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

The pleasure of life is according to the man that lives it, and not according to the work or place.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.