Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

When I finally gathered, invented, stole, simplified, borrowed, and found a publisher for a clutch of reasonably foolproof recipes, I learned I had friends I h…

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humour: he will always use it in evidence against you.

You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.