Max Eastman

A smile is the universal welcome.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.