“Comparison is the death of joy.”

“Looking' his last' upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing 'she' could see him now, abroad on the wild sea, facing peril and death with a dauntless heart, going to his doom with a grim smile on his lips.”

“The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.”

“The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in heaven.”

“People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with the friendship of man and wife where the best impulses and highest ideals of both are the same? There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine.”

“To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.”

“Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in Heaven.”