A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man read more

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection.

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be read more

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

The tide sent into
the cleft of rock Neptune's
polyfingered hand of
welcome.

The tide sent into
the cleft of rock Neptune's
polyfingered hand of
welcome.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water -- an inch deep and then the mud.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we read more

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the read more

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.