Quotes from leacock stephen iii

Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.

Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.

It may be those who do most, dream most.