“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.”

“Those who lack a sense of humor are destined to be life's hacked up hairballs.”

“There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.”

“It seems that there is nothing more frustrating than good humor and fair play for the embittered ideologue who is willing to distort the truth in the name of his mission to serve mankind.”

“There is nothing more potentially hostile than the indigenous ego interpreting the laws of his conqueror upon his own people”

“None was more indifferent to convention than herself, and the marriage tie especially excited her ridicule, but she despised entirely those who disregarded the by-laws of society, yet lacked courage to suffer the results of their boldness: to seek the good opinion of the world, and yet secretly to act counter to its idea of decorum, was a very contemptible hypocrisy.”