The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

All intellectual labor is inherently humorous

One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.

Our good depends on the quality and breadth of our emotions.

In bitter manuscript remarks on other men's notions about solar deities, he had become indifferent to the sunlight.

There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.

he was a likable man: sweet-tempered, ready-witted, frank, without grins of suppressed bitterness or other conversational flavors which make half of us an affliction to our friends.

Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.

I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.