The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.