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.
Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.
Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.
Something that is supposed to typify or stand for something else. Many symbols are mere “survivals” – as funereal urns carved on memorial monuments. We cannot stop making them, but we can give them a name that conceals our helplessness.
To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.
New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves.
Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.
A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.
At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign’s court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.
The liberality of one who has much, in permitting one who has nothing to get all that he can.
The clarinet is a musical instrument the only thing worse than which is two.
There would be far fewer accidents if we could only teach telephone poles to be more careful.
STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue.