Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.

Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.

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

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

Be not a slave of words.

Laughter means sympathy.