J. K. Morley was being both serious and facetious when he claimed that "the world's greatest water power is woman's tears."
-- Tom Lutz, Crying: The Natural and Cultural History of Tears
He was by all odds the liveliest, most genial man in the group--"a most engaging and entertaining companion of a sweet, even and lively temper, full of facetious stories always applied with judgment and introduced apropos."
-- Richard M. Ketchum, Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War
