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

“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.”

“Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement”

“Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.”

“There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.”

“The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest.”

“Remember, then, that whoever does not mean good is always in danger of harm. But I try to give everybody fair play, and those that are in the wrong are in far more need of it always than those who are in the right: they can afford to do without it.”