Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

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.

The partisan strife in which the people of the country are permitted to periodically engage does not tend to the development of ugly traits of character, but merely discloses those that preexist.

CONGRESS, n. A body of men who meet to repeal laws.

A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.