Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

Good-bye -- if you hear of my being stood up against a stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease or falling down the cellar stairs.

A popular writer writes about what people think. A wise writer offers them something to think about.

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

Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive . . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part . . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.

IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.