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.

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

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

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.