RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them.

FIDDLE, n. An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.

A man is known by the company he organizes.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.

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