I was born to poor because of honest parents.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.

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.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. A desiccated epigram.

Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.