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Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language.

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Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.

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We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

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Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?

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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

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We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

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That laugther costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

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Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

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A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

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