It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.