The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men, a pledge of sanity, and a protection from those perverse tendencies and gloomy insanities in which fine intellects sometimes lose themselves. A rogue alive to the ludicrous is still convertible. If that sense is lost, his fellow-men can do little for him.

Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future