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Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit.

There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

All human wisdom is summed up in these two words— Wait and Hope .

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Nobody sees with his eyes alone; we see with our souls.

It is no doubt a good thing to conquer on the field of battle, but it needs greater wisdom and greater skill to make use of victory.

The author’s character is read from title-page to end. Of this he never corrects the proofs.

I never saw an author in my life, saving perhaps one, that did not purr as audibly as a full-grown domestic cat on having his fur smoothed the right way by a skillful hand.

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.