GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted.
OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser “triumph.”
Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.
When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.
When lost in a forest go always down hill. When lost in a philosophy or doctrine go upward.
The game of discontent has its rules, and he who disregards them cheats. It is not permitted to you to wish to add another’s advantages or possessions to your own; you are permitted only to wish to be another.
To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.
Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.
An army’s bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
A bad marriage is like an electrical thrilling machine: it makes you dance, but you can’t let go.
Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal. The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man is to provoke him to let out his beast.
What a woman most admires in a man is distinction among men. What a man most admires in a woman is devotion to himself.
BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion.
Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
True, man does not know woman. But neither does woman.
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.
The poor man’s price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.
The most intolerant advocate is he who is trying to convince himself.
In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.
If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites of Canada.