A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.