It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

God bless us, every one!

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.

... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!

The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid.

We sat and drank in silence. It was something I appreciated about Jesse. He didn't feel the need to fill every moment with talk or some sort of silly exchange.

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I don't really collect the mementos. I do steal books off of sets. If there's a library on the set, you can bet that I'll steal away with a book or two.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

I like to let the actors work the way they want to.

Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades

Perhaps YOU can help solve a mystery.

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.