There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

Every great man is unique.

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Sometimes we receive the power to say yes to life. Then peace enters us and makes us whole.

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.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.