Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.