As a matter of fact, with all his wit, humor, raillery, persiflage, he was the profoundest logician that ever appealed to the intellect of an American audience. There was logic even in his laughter. He...

What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?

Sincere and unspiteful laughter is mirth, but where is there any mirth in our time, and do people know how to be mirthful?… A man’s mirth is a feature that gives away the whole man,...

In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll’s, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was ‘Some Mistakes...

For all beings within this universal kingdom, their magnetic north rests in genuine mirth.

Don’t let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly.

I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

When Death, or adverse Fortune’s ruthless gale,Tears our best hopes away, the wounded HeartExhausted, leans on all that can impartThe charm of Sympathy; her mutual wailHow soothing! never can her warm tears failTo balm our...