Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.
History n: an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.
Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.
diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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 i...
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Achievement: The death of an endeavor and the birth of disgust.
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Edible - good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
Infidel n: in New York one who does not believe in the Christian religion in Constantinople one who does.
Pray v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Philanthropist: a rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
The echo of a platitude.
Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of t...