I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.