Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.