A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch – as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.
Twice – Once too often.
Lawyer – One skilled in the circumvention of the law.
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.
Conversation: A fair for the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbor.
Christian – One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
Age – That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.
Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.
As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it...
Cribbage, n. A substitute for conversation among those to whom nature has denied ideas.
Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.
Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
I was born to poor because of honest parents.
Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.