How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.