Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe wings to the mind flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
Newspaper people once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun have of late lost all their gaiety and small wonder.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind spare to us our friends soften to us our enemies.
The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation His life His crucifixion and His resurrection.