The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

Society is founded upon Cloth.