Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!