There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Optimist – A proponent of the doctrine that black is white.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.