Charles Godfrey Leland

“Humour is the foam on the wave of sorrow.”

“There is no paradox in the fact that revealed religion has always been cruel.”

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”

“All men are mad, and he who can analyse his own madness is called a philosopher.”

“To find a new dish that will be liked is to do more for the happiness of mankind than to discover a new star.”

“Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face.”

“For all the while the world goes round, And suns and moons are in the sky, And there are folk on English ground, And other folk in Germany.”

“Life is a dream, a pleasant dream, from which we wake to something which is a better reality.”

“Men who know all the ins and outs of a game are no longer actively interested in it.”

“It is the working of the human mind, and not of an imaginary deity, that creates 'miracles'.”

“Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered Paradise.”