John Kendrick Bangs

“I have no dog, but it must be somewhere there's one belongs to me.”

“The world would be a duller place without the foolish.”

“There is no more reason to believe that a man who has passed into the other world is a saint than there is to believe that a man who has passed into the other room is a musician.”

“Remember this, that there is a proper time and place for everything.”

“The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.”

“Never put off till to-morrow what you can do the day after to-morrow just as well.”

“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.”

“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.”

“Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.”

“A sense of humor is the chiefest economist of the emotions.”

“The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the person talking as one reads, it is a good letter.”

“It is a good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.”

“Where one has a right to be, there he may be without trespass.”

“Be it ever so homely, there's no place like home.”

“The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.”