John Weiss

John Weiss

John Weiss (28 June 1818 – 9 March 1879) was an American author and clergyman, as well as a noted abolitionist.

Quotes

• Irony is jesting hidden behind gravity. Humor is gravity concealed behind the jest.
  • Wit, Humor, and Shakespeare: Twelve essays (1876), p. 63.

• The truest worship is a life;
  All dreaming we resign;
  We lay our offerings at Thy feet, —
  Our lives, O God, are Thine!
  • Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 118.