Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enj… - Herman Melville

However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and to be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order.

Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee.