Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent of the human race goes through life without ever having a single original thought. That is to say, they never think …

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as the…

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.