| Will a day come when the race will detect
the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them--and by laughing at
them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one
really effective weapon--laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication,
Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,--push it a little-- crowd
it a little--weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can
blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing
can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts |
 AI image created by Barbara Schmidt |
Cartoon from
WASHINGTON (D.C.) EVENING STAR, June 29, 1907.
| Laughter which cannot be suppressed is
catching. Sooner or later it washes away our defences, and undermines our
dignity, and we join in it -- ashamed of our weakness, and embittered against
the cause of its exposure, but no matter, we have to join in, there is no
help for it. - "Indiantown" |
|
He laughs best who laughs least.
- autographed inscription dated Feb. 3, 1909
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