Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
Grief is an artist of powers as various as the instruments upon which he plays his dirges for the dead, evoking from some the sharpest, shrillest notes, from others the low, grave chords that throb re...
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.
Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Appeal in law: to put the dice into the box for another throw.
To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
When you doubt, abstain.
That sovereign of insufferables.
Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.